Explainingthetimes on Instagram: "👑 The Day Elizabeth Became Queen 👑 In February 1952, Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip were on a Commonwealth tour in Kenya. They stayed at the Treetops Hotel, a wooden lodge built into the branches of giant fig trees, where guests could look out over the African wilderness. On the night of February 5th, Elizabeth climbed the ladder to her room as a princess. By the next day, everything had changed. While she slept in Africa, her father—King George VI—passe